European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday february 13,1987 news briefs . Army paratroopers begin Honduras exercise Palmerola a Honduras More than 300 . Army airborne troops parachuted thursday into Honduras about 75 Miles from the Nicaragua Border to begin a High readiness Alert exercise. The paratroopers arc part of a 750-Rncmbcrlast Force of the 82nd airborne div from fort Bragg. . They Are beginning two weeks of training that Pentagon officials said would help demonstrate . M Hilary capability 10 swiftly Challenge soviet cuban or nicaraguan threats in the Region. Launching of Titan 3b successful of announces Washington a the air Force late wednesday successfully launched a Titan 3b Booster carrying a classified payload from its launch Center at Vandyn Borg fab calif., the service announced thursday the launch which occurred Al 10 40 p.m., placed the payload into a Polar orbit around the Earth. The air Force declined to discuss the nature of the payload although one official who re Quested anonymity said it was not a weather satellite. That would suggest the payload might have been some Type listening satellite. The late night launch was the first involving any Type of Titan Booster since the air Force lost two titans in 1985 and 1986 and grounded the Fleet. The Booster also was the last of the Titan 3b boosters in he air Force inventory Mcfarlane offered to be hostage Agency says Nicosia Cyprus map the speaker of Iran s parliament said american envoy Robert Mcfarlane offered himself As a hostage in return for . Captives in Lebanon Iran s official news Agency reported thursday. Mcfarlane a former . National Security adviser made the offer during his secret visit to Tehran last year the islamic Republic news Agency quoted speaker Hashemi a Sfanjani As having said on wednesday. Several of the eight american hostages in Leb anon am believed o be held by pro iranian shiite moslem groups. 1rna quoted Ratsam Ani As saying Mcfarlane and others who came with him old iranian officials they would stay As Iran s hostages in return for release of the americans. German officials suggest free voluntary aids test Frankfurt a faced with growing concern about the spread of aids in Germany doctors and health officials thursday recommended voluntary aids testing for All pregnant women. Federal health minister Rita Suessmuth said she was looking into suggestions that pregnant woman receive free but voluntary testing for the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Meanwhile the German military said it was studying proposals to offer five million free con Doms a year to its 490,000 soldiers to help them avoid catching aids. Radiation in milk found by austrian scientists Boston up austrian researchers re ported wednesday they found Small amounts of radiation in milk from cows and breast feeding women fallowing the chernobyl nuclear Acci Dent. Although the Levels of radiation detected were Low even Trace amounts can cause concern for Young children and infants scientists said. Although the Hajrah from ingesting contaminated foods such As milk Are almost certainly exceedingly Small for adults there May become Hazard for fetuses and rapidly growing in they said in a letter to the new England journal of Medicine. Truce reimposed in Beirut no food sent to refugees Beirut Lebanon a palestinian and shiite moslem fighters battled with mortars and rocket propelled grenades Early thursday around besieged Refu gee Camps in Beirut but police said a syrian brokered truce was reinstated at Daybreak. Two people were killed and five injured in the three hour overnight Duel Between palestinian guerrillas and militiamen of Justice minister Nabih Bern s main Stream shiite Amat movement police said. The truce began at 8 . Wednesday with an agreement by palestinian guerrillas to withdraw from positions in South Lebanon in Exchange for amal s allowing food convoys to enter the Bour cd Bara Neh and Chavilla refugee Camps Bour cd Baraj Nch s 35,000 residents were reported to be so hungry thai they were reduced to eating rats cuts and dogs. Shatilla reportedly has not run out of food however the agreement broke Down when palestinian fighters refused to give up their positions As promised. Police said a Security committee with representatives of the warring factions and syrian army observers ordered the cease tire reinstated at Daybreak thursday and he guns again fell silent. The new casualties raised the known casually loll to 558 killed and 1,475 wounded in 12 weeks of shitty amal fighting in Beirut and South Lebanon. The food for territory Accord he latest in a series of attempts to end shiite palestinian warfare was reached in he syrian capital of Damascus on tuesday following reports of extreme hunger in Bour Elb Neh. Reporters have been denied Access to the Camp and could not verify the accounts. Israeli warplanes thursday attacked guerrilla bases at a palestinian Camp in Southern Lebanon Mleh Mich about 25 Miles South of Beirut near Sidon. Police said one Man was killed and three were wounded in the Dawn air raid. It was Israel s fifth in South Leb anon this year palestinian guerrillas stormed out of the Sidon Camps last november to capture amal positions in the nearby Christian town of mag Houshch located on Bufis com mandingo key North South Highway. Under the truce reached tuesday the palestinians were to Tern the huffs Back Over to amal which had used them to Shell Mich Mich and the nearby Ein Al Hilweh Camp. However palestinian commanders in the Sidon Region said wednesday they had received no orders to withdraw. A spokeswoman for the , Relief and work Agency which cares for Palestine refugees said thurs Day it had not received the of from amal to Send food and medicines to the the situation was to desperate in Bour Al Bara Neh that its predominantly sunni moslem residents asked their religious leaders for permission to ear the dead. No response was reported from sunni authorities. Palestinian sources who insisted on anonymity said about 40 children escaped starvation in the Camp by sneaking through amal lines one by one for about 20 Days to a Small Camp nearby controlled by the Neutral druse militia. Resign from Page 1 in his native Pennsylvania. He has certainly served six years in a very demand ing position Sims said. He s made significant contributions to the Navy and the nation. And that s As far As i can Lake it this Lehman is one of president Reagan s Anginal appointees to a ranking Post at the Pentagon haying assumed control of the Navy on feb. 5, 1981. Since then he has become known for his activist approach to management establishing himself As one of the most prominent secretaries of any military service in recent decades. Lehman played a critical role in shaping and then Selling to Congress Reagan s goal of expanding the Navy s Fleet from about 450 ships to 600 ships. He already has won the necessary shipbuilding commitments from Congress to realize that goal and the Fleet is expected to reach the 600-ship Mark by 1989. Lehman a flight officer in the naval Reserve has continued to report to Active duly each year for train ing missions in a-6 attack jets and has taken a partic ular interest in rebuilding naval aviation. The Navy s budget proposal for fiscal year 1988, which Lehman just unveiled includes a request for two new aircraft carriers to replace two world War ii Era ships Sims in discussing last week s meeting Between Weinberger and Lehman said the defense Secretary will hate very much to see John Lehman go and indeed he tried to talk him out of Lehman has been involved in defense and foreign affairs since the late 1960s, when he was a Suff Mem Ber of the foreign policy research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1969 to 1974, he served As special counsel and a senior staff member to Henry Kissinger on the National Security Council and from 1974 to 1975 served As a Delegate to the Mutual balanced Force reduction negotiations in Vienna he also served for iwo years from 1975 to 1977, As the Deputy director of the . Arms control and Dis armament Agency. Lehman received a Bachelor s decree in International relations from St. Joseph s College in 1964, then later went to Cambridge University in England Ai a Earhart fellow graduating in 1967 with a Bachelor s degree with honors in Law and a master s in International Law and diplomacy. He earned a doctorate in International relations from the University of Pennsyl Vania in 1974. A native of Philadelphia Lehman was one of the youngest Navy secretaries in history at the time of his selection by Reagan. 2 soviet panes Nerc elfed off Italy Naples Italy of italian fighter jets intercepted two soviet reconnaissance planes flying to Ward Italy s Adriatic coast newspapers reported thursday. The of list Tu-6s, bombers converted for recon Naissance missions were intercepted wednesday morning by two f-104 fighter jets outside italian air space about 50 Miles cast of the Southern port of Brin Disi according to newspaper accounts. Italian military authorities scrambled the two Amer ican made f-104s from the Graz Anise air base near Naples after radar detected the soviet planes the newspapers said. The italian pilots intercepted the soviet planes at 33,000 feet photographing and identifying the Typo levs. The soviets continued their flight South before turning East and heading inward Syria according to the accounts. Contras from Page 1 coalition Over differences with the other leaders. Crowe Asti said the administration will have to make a decision in the near future about space test ing for weapons being developed under the strategic defensive initiative known popularly As Star but he reiterated he did not foresee deployment of any of those weapons until the mid-1990s, Crowe hedged against specifically defining . Mil itary objectives for the contras in the War against the sandinista regime other than saying they should bring about a change in How the government of Nicaragua does its but to do that he said the contras will have to change the Way they operate which would include establishing bases in Nicaragua. Contra forces Are based in neighbouring Honduras and Costa Rica from where they have launched their raids into Nicaragua. Of the contras Are going to be viable As a military Force if they Are going to be viable in forwarding their political Aims they have to change the Way they arc doing business and the have id do it Beiler and they have to Start living within the country and to Start making some Progress he said. They have also got to have some Unity in the move ment Crowe said. It is imperative to be successful. You have got to have some kind of
